Flood Risk Continues for Australian Towns as Rain Subsides
Hundreds of residents across inland New South Wales (NSW) are under evacuation orders as swollen rivers and catchments inundate towns in southern and central western NSW.
With 104 emergency warnings current across the state, authorities have told residents in parts of Forbes, Wagga Wagga and Gunnedah to evacuate from low-lying areas as major flooding is set to hit the Murrumbidgee, Namoi and Lachlan rivers.
Severe flooding is expected in the central western town of Forbes on Thursday and Friday as the community reels from an inundation weeks ago.
“It is a long list of rivers in flood in NSW, with our greatest concern at the moment being for the Lachlan River at Forbes,” Ashley Sullivan from the State Emergency Service told ABC TV on Thursday….